By: Paige Brown

It’s October, and you know what that means: Halloween. With Halloween comes dark, ghostly and scary attractions for everyone to enjoy.

Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT, hosts “The Haunted Graveyard” every year throughout the month of October. The park is given a eerie atmosphere as people are spooked along their way through the houses, mazes and fields filled with monsters, ghosts and characters from classic horror movies.

The best part of “The Haunted Graveyard” is the unexpected shocks and scares. [Paige: can you rewrite this sentence into something like, “The combination of real and fake characters keep you guessing as to which wall will jump out at you” or something along those lines ] As you walk through, there are real people and fake characters all along the walls and in the nooks and crannies of the dark corners. It’s especially scary when you say out loud, “that’s fake,” and then they jump out and make you scream like a little girl.

Ghoulish sounds and fetid smells were added to create the teeth-rattling feeling that you were actually part of a scene in a scary movie. The smell of gas filled the air as you got chased by the crazy guy with the chainsaw and even the fake, skinned animals as you walked through the slaughter house has a smell that could make a grown man cringe.

As for sounds, not only does the creepy music, wind sounds or ghosts howls get to you, but the voices that the actors created for their characters made everyone’s hair stand up and jumpstart their escape.

Going to scary events like haunted hay rides, spooky corn mazes or even your local haunted house, “The Haunted Graveyard” is one that every Halloween enthusiast should take the time to enjoy. With a price tag of $23, it would be scary to NOT go.

So whether you easily get scared by the smallest spider or if you’re the friend who loves to watch your friends scream, “The Haunted Graveyard” is definitely a great Halloween scare-fest.